Advertising-card.



C. REESE.

ADVERTISING CARD. APPLICATION FILED AUG.23. 1915.

A m 3mm Patented Jan. 116, 1917..

GHAELES REESE, 0F STAPLETON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 NEVINS-CHURCH PRESS,

CORPQRATIUN OF NEW JERSEY.

ADVERTISING-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1l@il*?i.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, CHARL S ltnnsn, a

citizen of the United States residing in- Stapleton, in the county of Richmond and State of New. York, have invented an Tmpro'vement in Advertising-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to advertising cards provided with a supporting member for supporting the card in the proper position to display the advertisement thereon, and the object of my invention is to provide a card which will be attractive in appearance, simple in construction and economical to manufacture, and in which the supporting member and the member for locking the supporting member in operative position are cut from the margin of the card itself, leaving the face of the card intact for display of advertising matter. These and the other objects of my invention will more fully appear in the following specification and claims.

Tn the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, Fig. 2

is a vertical section, Fig. 3 is a view of the card illustrating the method of cutting the same to form the supporting and locking members, and Fig. 4 is a View of the card showing the supporting member cut in the form of a rocker.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the accompanying drawings.

Advertising cards heretofore have been supported by a supporting member, either secured directly to the card by paste or glue, or to a strip of flexible material secured to the back of the card. In my invention, however, the supporting members and locking members are formed by cutting these members into the proper form from the margin of tdhe card without severing them from the car In the construction shown in the. drawings, 1 is the card, upon the face of which the advertising matter is to be displayed. The supporting members 2 are cut from the upper side margins of the card, as shown in Fig. 3, and folded into the position shown in Fig. 2. The supporting members are secured in position by locking members 3, which are also cut from the margin of the card, and folded into the position shown in Fig. 2. The locking members are carried by and are unsevered from the supporting members. The locking members are provided near their ends with notches 4, adapted to engage with the slots 5 in the lower edge of the card and lock the supporting members in operative position as shown in Fig. 2.

I am aware that picture frames and supporting stands of cardboard have been heretofore constructed by cutting and forming supporting members and locking members from the cardboard or other material of which such picture frames or show stands are constructed, but in such prior devices the supporting members and locking members Were cut and formed from the central portion of the card and these devices were,

therefore, wholly unsuitable for the purposes for which my invention is intended and I make no claim for such constructions.

Having described my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A display-card formed from a single sheet comprising a body portion, supporting legs cut from the side edges of the card and adapted to be folded back at an angle to said card into supporting position, said legs carrying members at an angle thereto, and adapted to be folded at their point of union with said legs toward the body of the card, the free ends of said members being adapted to interlock with the base of said the base of the card and interlocked at their free ends with the base of said card so as to space the outer ends of said legs from the base of said card.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 19th day of August, 1915.

CHARLES REESE.

, Witnesses i- MARGARET A. HECK, BENJAMIN T. ABRAMs. 

